Getting in the loop

Great article on the Observation, Orientation, Decision, Action (OODA) loop by Dag von Lubitz in DM Review. Dag nicely summarizes and explains the work of Col Boyd's OODA loop in the article and I would highly recommend the article to anyone interested in decision making. It is clearly possible to apply the same loop both to the definition of an operational decision (the definition of the internals of a adaptive control, say) and to consider the loop when automating a decision (especially in terms of considering adaptive control).